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Quotes About Kindness

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
~ Unknown
We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.
~ Plato
Gratitude is the heart of Friendship.
~ Louann Brizendine
Volunteers are caring friends
~ Don Williams
Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings and realize that it's sometimes more important to be nice than to be honest.
~ Anna Quindlen
Friendship means to be a strong hand in the dark to another in the time of need.
~ Hugh Black
Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?
~ Dalai Lama
A few caring kind quality friends are worth more than any amount of shallow popularity.
~ Rachel Hamilton
A friend is one who withholds judgment no matter how long you have his unanswered letter.
~ Sophie Irene Loeb
You take me in, no questions asked. You strip away the ugliness that surrounds me. Are you an angel?
~ Sarah McLachlan
Friendship reaches well above all currency.
~ Robert M. Hensel
The value of friendship and just deep human contact grows out of giving.
~ Patch Adams
Friend is a very small word, A little sound we make, For one who is true, one who will do, Great deeds for friendship's sake.
~ Brian Jacques
If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Friend: One who knows all about you and loves you just the same.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
~ Oscar Wilde
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
~ Aristotle
To have a good friend is one of the highest delights of life to be a good friend is one of the noblest and most difficult undertakings.
~ Anonymous
Many a friendship-long loyal and self-sacrificing-rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.
~ Frederick W. Faber
I thought it would teach them a thing or two about empathy, and friendship, and loyalty. As it turns out, Jack Will didn't need to learn any of these virtues- he already had them in abundance.
~ R.J. Palacio
One thing everybody in the world wants and needs is friendliness.
~ William E. Holler
Grateful thanks to good friends, who lifted us, when we fall.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Make all good men your well-wishers and then in the years' steady sifting some of them will turn into friends.
~ John Hay